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GLOVE BLANK.

No. 283,605. Patented Aug. 21, 1883.

' NVENTOR.

BY imma/w@ ATTORNEYS.

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- v GLOVE-BLANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,605, dated August 21, 1883.

Application tiled Octoberl, 1380.- (No model.) Patented France, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gloves, of which the following is a specification.

' The object of this invention is to provide a glove or mitten which can be out economically from the skins of small animals. To this end the opening for the thumb-piece is not cut in the body of the skin or leather in the 'usual manner, but is formed by only partially uniting the edges of the pattern on the inner side of the hand, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view of the inner side of a glove out according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of a glovepattern cut according to my invention. Fig. 3 is a view of the thumb-piece for my improved glove. Y

Similar letters of reference indicate corre` sp ondin g parts.

This invention relates to the class ofl gloves in which the main seam is made to pass from the button-opening to the union ofthe first and second iingers on the inner side of the hand.`

, In such gloves, heretofore, the opening for the thumb has been out wholly or almost wholly Vin one of the side edges of the blank. This is out out nearly equally at lthe sidesto correspond to the narrowest part ofthe skin in its natural form .for the purpose of providing the opening for the thumb, then the glove can evidently be'made broader than by any other methodthat is to say, the natural inward curves ofthe side edges of the skin are made to serve, with a very slight modication in shape, as an opening for the thumb when the blank is doubled upon itself-and as these .narrowest part of the skin.

in France February 18, 1880, No. 135,234, and in Belgium July 2G, 1880,

natural curves do not need to be brought into line with the main seam the width ofthe glove may be more than one-half the width of the This is an important advantage in the manufacture of gloves, because a larger or smaller glove may thereby with equal convenience be made from a skin of a given size, and also because gloves smaller than a medium size have alower market value than larger ones. lf a manufacturer, for instance, has on hand a large number of skins which are so small that only gloves below the medium size can be cut from them by the usual methods of cutting, he may greatly increase the value of his stock by cutting according to our method, since a larger glove may thereby be produced.

The piece A, of leather, cloth, or any other suitable material from which the glove is tol be made, is cut in the following manner: Beginning at B, the edge is cutstraight for the buttonholes, and is then out on a slightlycurved line, C, which is rst curved inwardly and then outwardly again, until it terminates in a straight line, D, which reaches to the bottom ofthe first nger-shaped piece, E, which forms the inner side of the second finger when the glove is completed. F is the third finger, and the larger piece G forms Vboth sides of the little iinger. H forms the outer side of the third finger; I, the outer side of the second finger, and the wider piece J forms the inner and outer side of the first or pointer finger. From the bottom end of the outer side of the nger-piece .l the leather is out straight for a shortglistance, corresponding to the palm of the hand, and is then eut inward and forms ai small triangular piece or gore at K. From the gore K the-edge of the blank is set. inward to form part of the opening for the thumb, and is out on a slightly-curved line to the rst but- "ton or the base of the thumb, from which pointk an offset is made to form the wrist. In this way no pieces are out out of the middle of the leather, and consequently there is no waste, as the edges ofthe glove-pattern can be cut closely to the edge of the leather, whereas formerlyY large pieces had to be cut out of costly pieces and could not be utilized. The thumb-piece I L is out to form both sides of the thumb, and l Havingthus described our invention, what 3o with two projections or gores, M, fitting in the angles N N of the main piece A.

The pattern having been cut as described, -it is folded and sewed as follows: The part of the pattern to the right of the dotted line O is first folded from right to left, as indicated in dotted lines, so that the edge D corresponds with the dotted line Q, upon which the part to the left ofthe dotted line P is folded from left to right, thus causing Q to correspond with Q also. The thumb-piece L is then folded on the dotted line S, and the gores M M are passed into the angles N N, formed by the gore K, and one ofthe edges, T T, of thethumbpiece is sewed to the edge C of the piece A,

l and the other is sewed to the other edge ofthe piece A, from the gore K downward. The main seam of the glove thus runs from the main opening V to the point where the first and second fingers meeton the inner side of the hand, andthe end seam along the outside of the little finger is thus avoided. The opening for the thumb-piece need not be cut out of the leather or cloth, but is formed by cutting and uniting this leather in the manner dewe claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A glove-blank having the side edges out out about equally to form the opening for the thumb, substantially as shown and described, whereby a larger glove 'than usual may be formed from a single animal skin from which only one glove can be made, as specified.

2. The glove-blank A, having on one side the slightly-curved edge C, which, proceeding from the wrist, is first curved inwardly on a convex line and then outwardly on a concave line, andhaving the opposite edge set inward between the gore K and thewrist on a slightlycurved line, Substantially as and for the pur-` pose speci'ed.

' rlhe above specification of our invention signed by us this 210th day of July, 1880.

J. A. HoLBRooK. einer MoNrenLAs. Q

XVitnesses for Mr. Holbrook: EDW. W. SENELLY, Jr., ALEXANDRE GATAZ.

For G. Montgelas:

JULEs SEPMETTE,

YvIN RABILLOUD. 

